Cameron Duodu was his brother-in-law, and his younger brother Jerry Parkes (also a broadcaster as well as a scientist) was the father of contemporary Ghanaian writer, social commentator and scientist Nii Ayikwei Parkes. Another nephew, Sam Yarney, is the author of a series of Christian thriller novels, and one of Parkes' sons, also named Frank, is a gospel musician. Bibliography An African Treasury (anthology, ed. Langston Hughes) (1960) Songs from the Wilderness (1965) Poems of Black Africa (anthology, ed. Wole Soyinka) (1975) Voices of Ghana: literary contributions to the Ghana Broadcasting System 1955-57 (anthology, ed. Henry Swanzy) (1958), 2nd edition ed. by Victoria Ellen Smith, 2018 References External links "African Heaven" in digital copy of An African Treasury at archive.org British Library archive reference for BBC recording of Frank Parkes' tribute to Langston Hughes 1932 births 2004 deaths Alumni of Adisadel College Ghanaian male poets Ghanaian journalists 20th-century Ghanaian poets 20th-century male writers 20th-century journalists